UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, March 5, 1997
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Prints capture old London
By Nicole French Special to the Kansan
The works of England's world-
renowned 18th century printmaker
and the great artist initiated some
right law for printmakers in England are on display at the Spencer Museum of Art.
William Hogarth captured the essence of 18th century life in London's streets in his highly popular satirical prints. The subjects of these prints range from lighthearted images of happy Londoners to tougher themes, such as drinking and harlotry.
The exhibit, Hogarth and the Shows of London, contains 52 of Hogarth's highly detailed black-and-white etched prints. Some of the prints stand alone, while others were drawn in a series of six to eight pieces, giving extended narratives.
Gogarth, who lived from 1696 to 1764, based his work on events he saw in the streets of London. "He saw theater, spectacle, plays, everything that was happening around him, as a way to present English contemporary culture and the English people to themselves," said Michelle Robinson, a research assistant at the museum.
She said Hogarth wanted to make art more contemporary and accessible to the masses.
Dean Dixon, a tour guide at the museum, said the prints cast a sarcastic judgment on society.
"This is very similar to what Gary Trudeau does in *Doonesbury*, and he won the Pulitzer Prize," Dixon said. "This medium of making fun of the way we live is pretty deep within us."
Stephen Goddard is the curator of prints and drawings at the museum.
"His prints were so popular that they were pirated right and left," Goddard said. "He was faced with a very difficult situation. People would copy his engrappings and then sell them for less."
To solve this problem, Hogarth worked to pass a copyright law for images. Passed in 1735, the law became known as "Hogarth's Law" and was the first copyright protection for images in England.
Like a dollar bill, Hogarth's work is very detailed and takes a careful eye. Dave Hiebert, Lawrence resident, brought a magnifying glass to the exhibit.
"I was here a week ago when the exhibit was already up," Hiebert said. "I'm fascinated by the detail and the satirical content, and I just don't want to miss any little bit of what Horgath was trying to say."
The exhibit is located in the White Gallery of the museum and runs through March 30.
CONTRIBUTED ART
The Laughing Audience is part of an exhibit of William Hogarth's engravings. The exhibit is being displayed at the Spencer Museum of Art in the White Gallery until March 30.
Med Center practices form of cloning
By Emily Vrabac
Kansan staff writer
Research of mice important to the future of medical field
The recent cloning of Dolly the sheep in Scotland has brought attention to genetic research throughout the world.
The University of Kansas Medical Center has its own genetic laboratories that perform genetic manipulation on a daily basis using mice.
The two laboratories perform what is called transgenic research, which involves transferring a foreign gene into a fertilized egg and studying the effects of the gene.
"We look for the expression of that gene and the sequence that controls its expression," said Wenhao Xu, associate director of the Transgenic Institutional Facility laboratory at the Med Center.
Xu said that his transgenic research methods
"The main thing is that you can overexpress or underexpress a particular gene through trans-
When the embryo develops into a mouse, Dey then monitors how the mouse demonstrates the traits associated with the particular gene.
"All modern science uses transgenic technologies," Dey said. "It is a very powerful approach to understand cell-to-cell interaction to work in disease research."
"You can make animal disease models by doing this," he said. "The animal gets the disease using transgenics, then you can make a drug and treat it."
Xu said that he hoped to attract doctors' interest in his research because it could help the future of medicine.
Dey said that his research focused on how genes worked once they were implanted into the uterus of a female mouse.
S. K. Dey, director of the other transgenic lab at the Med Center, said that these experiments are common.
were a basic form of the cloning process that created Dolly.
Gene therapy involves removing bad genes and replacing them with good genes in order to manipulate characteristics, Dey said.
genics," Dey said. "What's called gene therapy is kind of a future dream."
He said an application of gene therapy in larger animals would be used to manufacture drugs and nutrients in the animals.
Xu said that his work with mice was an early stage of gene therapy, but to develop it researchers need to use larger animals like the sheep used by the researchers in Scotland.
"It has exploded now," Dey said. "Almost every university is involved in doing this kind of research."
"You can introduce a gene into the milk of a cow or lamb," Xu said. "The drug will be in the milk, and you can purify it to use for therapeutic purposes. The pharmaceutical industry is very interested in this."
Xu and Dey said that transgenic research started in the early 1980s and has become more common in the 1990s with technological advances.
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